, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, 海角社区, 9 West Road, 海角社区 CB3 9DB, United Kingdom
At the intersection of the economy, society and policy, a major theme of Anna鈥檚 research is work and employment, in relation to sustainability, climate change and corporate responsibility. Anna鈥檚 newest project focuses on the potential of Natural Language Processing (a branch of AI) to benefit societies in low-resource settings; for this Anna is focusing on Nepal and Uganda.
In relation to social and environmental sustainability, Anna has conducted research with diverse actors including policy makers, NGOs, investors and corporations to understand the business case for living wages. Her research on the was discussed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. On the circular economy, Anna calls for greater . Anna has also produced research for the International Labour Organization on , , and decent work in recycling.
Anna鈥檚 research on youth employment brings together young people鈥檚 perspectives, statistical data, and the broader policy context. Projects within this work stream have addressed how are impacted by and responding to in their ; 听to understand how during the Delta wave of COVID-19; and in seven African countries. This collaborative research often adopts a approach.
Anna鈥檚 earlier policy research on , with Professor Mia Gray, examined the politics of austerity in British towns and cities. Together they identified to local government in the UK, and identified how the gaps left by a are being partially filled. Other earlier projects include research into a 听PhD on attitudes and discourses about in Kenya, Mexico and the UK, and a world mapping project which produced hundreds of world cartograms, The Atlas of the Real World: mapping the way we live, and .
Anna is Director of the , a consultant to the , and an associate of the听project. She sits on the Steering Committee of the 海角社区 , writes for , and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Within the Department of Geography of the 海角社区, Anna has lectured undergraduate Geographers on Austerity and Affluence; Geographical Research; and Global Urbanism; and supervised on many courses. Anna has been Director of Studies for Geography at 海角社区rton, Girton, Murray Edwards and Christ鈥檚 Colleges. She currently supervises PhD students Kate Brockie and Grace Mueller on Geographies of Work, and co-supervised Jakob Pr眉ss鈥� doctorate on Circular Supply Chains.
For the 海角社区 Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Anna has lectured and supervised dissertation students on the MSt in Sustainability Leadership, as well as teaching bespoke Executive Education courses run by CISL. Beyond 海角社区, she has given guest lectures on the University of Nottingham鈥檚 MA in Public Health and the University of Northampton鈥檚 BA in Development, and has taught Geographers at the University of Sheffield.
Work and Employment; Living Wages; Green, Circular and Care Economies; Youth Livelihoods; Austerity and Inequality; Equitable Artificial Intelligence; Public Policy
- Social Science Impact Award, ESRC. Taking climate change to school. 2022-2023.
- Prince of Wales Fellowship in Global Sustainability (on the Decent Work in the Circular Economy and The Case for Living Wages), 2019-2022.
- Seed funding from the School of Technology, 海角社区. 2021.
- British Academy Youth Futures research,听听2020-2022.
- Asian Development Bank project, Youth-specific livelihoods impacts and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020-2021.
Books & edited volumes
Barford, A. (ed.) 2023. Being and Becoming: Uncertain Youth Futures. Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 3, ISSN 2052-7217.
Dorling, D., Newman, M.E.J. and Barford, A., 2010. The atlas of the real world: mapping the way we live. (2nd edition). 416pp. Also published in Germany and Austria.
Dorling, D., Newman, M. and Barford, A. 2008. The atlas of the real world: mapping the way we live. (1st edition). London, Thames & Hudson.听 Also published in France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea and the United States.听
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Journal articles
Hu, S., Oppong, A., Mogo, E., Collins, C., Occhini, G., Barford, A. and Korhonen, A., in press. Natural Language Processing Technologies for Public Health in Africa: A Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Barford, A., Beales, A. and Zorila, M., 2025. An Expert Study of Systemic Influences on Progress Towards Living Wages: A Key to Unlock the Sustainable Development Goals. Business Strategy & Development, vol. 8, issue 1, .
Barford, A. and Ahmad, S.R., 2024. Responsibility fixes: patching up circular economy value chains. 海角社区 Journal of Regions Economy and Society, vol. 17, issue 3, p.591-603. .
Barford, A., McCarthy, G., Mueller, G., Osborne, H., Pratiwi, A.M., Pradhan, K. and Shrestha, S., 2024. Mortgaged futures: fractured livelihoods and youth debts during COVID-19. Journal of Youth Studies, vol. ahead-of-print, issue ahead-of-print, p.1-20. .
Hu, S., Oppong, A., Mogo, E., Barford, A., Occhini, G., Collins, C. and Korhonen, A., 2024. Review Protocol: A Scoping Review of Natural Language Processing Technologies for Public Health in Africa. medRxiv, pp.2024-07.
Barford, A., 2023. Youth futures under construction. Journal of the British Academy, vol. 11, p.3-16. .
Barford, A. and Ahmad, S.R., 2023. Levers for a corporate transition to a plastics circular economy. Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 32, issue 4, p.1203-1217. .
Barford, A., Magimbi, P., Mugeere, A., Nyiraneza, M., Isiko, B. and Mankhwazi, C., 2023. Young people 鈥榤aking it work鈥� in a changing climate. Journal of the British Academy, vol. 11, p.173-197. .
Mueller, G., Barford, A., Osborne, H., Pradhan, K., Proefke, R., Shrestha, S. and Pratiwi, A.M., 2023. Disaster Diaries: Qualitative Research at a Distance. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, vol. 22, p.16094069221147163-. .
Proefke, R. and Barford, A., 2023. Creating spaces for co-research. Journal of the British Academy, vol. 11, p.19-42. .
Barford, A. and Gray, M., 2022. The tattered state: Falling through the social safety net. Geoforum, vol. 137, p.115-125. .
Cieslik, K., Barford, A. and Vira, B., 2022. Young people not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Development Target 8.6 missed and reset. Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 25, issue 8, p.1126-1147. .
Barford, A., 2021. Challenging inequality in Kenya, Mexico and the UK. Third World Quarterly, vol. 42, issue 4, p.679-698. .
Barford, A. and Ahmad, S.R., 2021. A Call for a Socially Restorative Circular Economy: Waste Pickers in the Recycled Plastics Supply Chain. Circular Economy and Sustainability, vol. 1, issue 2, p.761-782. .
Barford, A., Coombe, R. and Proefke, R., 2021. Against the odds: Young people鈥檚 high aspirations and societal contributions amid a decent work shortage. Geoforum, vol. 121, p.162-172. .
Mugeere, A., Barford, A. and Magimbi, P., 2021. Climate Change and Young People in Uganda: A Literature Review. The Journal of Environment & Development, vol. 30, issue 4, p.344-368. .
Barford, A., Coombe, R. and Proefke, R., 2020. Youth experiences of the decent work deficit. Geography, vol. 105, issue 2, p.60-68. .
Barford, A., 2020. Informal work in a circular economy: waste collection, insecurity and COVID19. Proceedings of the IS4CE2020 Conference of the International Society for the Circular Economy. .
Gray, M. and Barford, A., 2018. The depths of the cuts: the uneven geography of local government austerity. 海角社区 Journal of Regions Economy and Society, vol. 11, issue 3, p.541-563. .
Barford, A., 2017. Emotional responses to world inequality. Emotion, Space and Society, vol. 22, p.25-35. .
Barford, A., 2016. Discourses supporting socio-economic inequality in Kenya, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Portuguese Journal of Social Science, vol. 15, issue 3, p.331-347. .
Smallman-Raynor, M., Cliff, A. and Barford, A., 2015. Geographical Perspectives on Epidemic Transmission of Cholera in Haiti, October 2010 Through March 2013. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, vol. 105, issue 4, p.665-683. .
Barford, A., 2014. . Geography, vol. 99, issue 2, p.104-107.
Barford, A. and Pickett, K., 2014. . Solutions Journal, vol. 5, issue 4, p.60-71.
Barford, A., Dorling, D. and Pickett, K., 2010. Re-evaluating self-evaluation. A commentary on Jen, Jones, and Johnston (68:4, 2009). Social Science and Medicine, vol. 70, issue 4, p.496-497. .
Barford, A., 2009. . Geography, vol. 94, issue 3, p.215-218.
Dorling, D. and Barford, A., 2009. The inequality hypothesis: thesis, antithesis, and a synthesis?. Health and Place, vol. 15, issue 4, p.1166-1169. .
Moraru, M., Barford, A. and Dorling, D., 2009. . GeoFocus, vol. 9, p.1-18.
Barford, A., 2008. Worldmapper: hundreds of world maps for the Internetworld. Mappemonde, vol. 89, issue 1.
Barford, A., Moraru, M. and Dorling, D., 2008. CARTOGRAFIANDO LA EXTENSI脫N DE LA GLOBALIZACI脫N. GeoFocus.
Barford, A. and Dorling, D., 2007. The shape of the global causes of death. International Journal of Health Geographics, vol. 6, art. 48, .
Barford, A. and Dorling, D., 2007. Re-ordering the world. Geography Review, vol. 20, issue 5, p.8-11.
Dorling, D. and Barford, A., 2007. . Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 85, issue 11, p.890-893. .
Dorling, D., Barford, A. and Wheeler, B., 2007. Health impacts of an environmental disaster: a polemic. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 2, issue 4, art. 045007, .
Barford, A. and Dorling, D., 2006. . Teaching Geography, vol. 31, issue 2, p.68-75.
Barford, A. and Dorling, D., 2006. . National Medical Journal of India, vol. 19, issue 4, p.234-235.
Barford, A., Dorling, D., Davey Smith, G. and Shaw, M., 2006. Life expectancy: women now on top everywhere. British Medical Journal, vol. 332, issue 7545, p.808-808. .
Barford, A., Dorling, D., Davey Smith, G. and Shaw, M., 2006. The cause for quiet celebration. BMJ, vol. 332, issue 7549, p.1095-1096. .
Dorling, D. and Barford, A., 2006. What's wrong with this picture?. New Scientist, vol. 190, issue 2550, p.37-39.
Dorling, D., Barford, A. and Newman, M., 2006. Worldmapper: the world as you've never seen it before. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12, issue 5, p.757-764. .
Dorling, D. and Barford, A., 2006. Humanising geography. Geography, vol. 91, issue 3, p.187-197.
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Reports
Barford, A., Brockie, K. and O'Higgins, N., 2024. Volunteering, unpaid care work and gender in lower-income countries. United Nations Volunteers and International Labour Organization, Bonn and Geneva. DOI:
O'Higgins, N., Karkee, V., Levina, K., Cuaulte Segovia, M. and Barford, A., 2023. ILO Youth Country Briefs (for Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Senegal, Rwanda). International Labour Organization, Geneva.
O'Higgins, N., Karkee, V., Levina, K., Cuautle Segovia, M. and Barford, A., 2023. ILO Youth Country Briefs: Cross country review. .
Barford, A., Gilbert, R., Beales, A., Zorila, M. and Nelson, J., 2022. The case for living wages: How paying living wages improves business performance and tackles poverty. .
Mueller, G., Shrestha, S., Pradhan, K., Barford, A., Pratiwi, A.M. and Hughson, G., 2022. Youth in a time of crisis: livelihood diaries from Nepal and Indonesia during COVID-19. .
Shankland, S., Hyson, K. and Barford, A., 2022. Lifting youth participation through financial inclusion. .
Barford, A., Coutts, A. and Sahai, G., 2021. Youth employment in times of COVID: A global review of COVID-19 policy responses to tackle (un)employment and disadvantage among young people. International Labour Organization: Geneva. .
Barford, A., Mugeere, A., Proefke, R. and Stocking, B., 2021. Young People and Climate Change. COP 26 Briefing Series of The British Academy, p.1-17. .
Barford, A., Olwell, R.H., Mugeere, A., Nyiraneza, M., Magimbi, P., Mankhwazi, C. and Isiko, B., 2021. Living in the climate crisis: young people in Uganda. Murray Edwards College, 海角社区. .
Shuckburgh, E., Zenghelis, D., Agarwala, M., Diaz Anadon, L., Howard-Grenville, J., Penasco, C., Seega, N., Whittington, E., Barford, A., Brayne, C., Sirringhaus, H., Friend, R., Fitzgerald, S., Cebon, D., Ainalis, D., Barlow, C., Mackie, E., Schooling, J., Guthrie, P., Ramage, M., Plummer Braeckman, J., Reiner, D., Epple, C., Reynolds, F., Coomes, D., Griffiths, H., Cordonier Segger, M., Phillips, F., Rands, M., Neilsen, A. and Hayes, J., 2020. A Blueprint for a Green Future - Multidisciplinary report on a green recovery from COVID-19. 海角社区 Zero Policy Forum.
Barford, A. and Cieslik, K., 2019. Making a life: a youth employment agenda. Murray-Edwards College, 海角社区. .
Barford, A. and Coombe, R., 2019. Getting by: young people鈥檚 working lives. Murray-Edwards College, 海角社区. .
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Book chapters
Barford, A., 2024. Avoiding the decent work deficits of the circular economy, in Rethinking Economic Transformation for Sustainable and Inclusive Development, Edward Elgar Publishing. p.103-122. .
O'Higgins, N., Barford, A., Coutts, A., Elsheikhi, A., Pinedo Caro, L. and Brockie, K.. 2023. How NEET are developing and emerging economies? What do we know and what can be done about it?, in Global Employment Policy Review 2023: Macroeconomic policies for recovery and structural transformation, International Labour Office. art. 3.
Dorling, D., Newman, M.E.J., Allsopp, G., Barford, A., Wheeler, B. and Pritchard, J., 2015. Ecological Footprint, in ATLAS OF KNOWLEDGE: ANYONE CAN MAP. p.90-91.
Barford, A., 2014. Representing, in The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography: Two Volume Set, SAGE Publications. p.273-295. .
Barford, A. and Dorling, D., 2011. Inequality, in Southerton, D. (ed.) Encyclopaedia of consumer culture, SAGE Publications, London. .
Barford, A. and Dorling, D., 2008. Telling an Old Story with New Maps, in Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications. p.67-107. .
Barford, A. and Dorling, D.. Mapping Disease Patterns, in Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online, Wiley. p.1-15. .
